¹⁸The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ²“Come, go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”^* ³So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. ⁴The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him.

⁵Then the word of the Lord came to me: ⁶Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? says the Lord. Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.^* ⁷At one moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, ⁸but if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it.^* ⁹And at another moment I may declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,^* ¹⁰but if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will change my mind about the good that I had intended to do to it.^* ¹¹Now, therefore, say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am a potter shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, all of you, from your evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.^*

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Cross references

*Jer 19:1, 2; 23:22
*Isa 45:9; Mt 20:15; Rom 9:20, 21
*Jer 26:3; Ezek 18:21; Jon 3:10
*Jer 1:10; 31:28
*Jer 7:24–28; Ezek 33:18
*2 Kings 17:13; Isa 1:16–19; Jer 4:6; Acts 26:20